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Improving Sims 4: The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
It's easy to lay some carpet and slap a coat of paint onto our new building, but decorating goes a little bit further than that.
Wall and floor coverings are pretty basic, but there may be one or two things you didn't know, so let's do a refresher course on them both.
Select Floor Patterns from the build menu and use the sub menu to select what type of flooring you want. Hover over different patterns to see a color palate for that pattern. Note though, that some patterns only have one color choice. Above the pattern type menu, you can also select to place the pattern by tile or by floor. Select by floor to cover the whole room in one click. This will also cover any tiles you may have placed individually, so if you want to create a pattern with different floor tiles, you will need to select by tile.
Click to Enlarge. Apply floorpattens by tile or the whole room-->
When you select by tile, you can still cover the whole room with one click simply by also pressing the shift key as you place the tile. It will not, however, cover any pieces that you have already placed individually. This is useful if you want to add a pattern with some tiles and then use a different one for the rest of the room.
If you want a room to have different floor coverings in different areas, build temporary walls to divide the larger room into smaller ones. Lay the desired floor in each section and then remove the walls again.
Patterns on floor tiles can be rotated by selecting the desired covering and pressing , or . before placing on the floor.
If you only want a partial piece of floor covering, press ctrl + f to change to triangle shaped floor tiles press ctrl + f again to toggle back to full square tiles.
Click to Enlarge. Use partial floor tiles to create a pattern
Wall coverings are selected in the same manner as floor coverings, with a choice above the sub menu for placement by wall piece or by room.
When covering the outside of a building, applying by room or shift clicking by wall will not paint the whole building. It will only paint the outside of the room you click on. To do the whole house, you will need to go around and click on each room section.
Exterior trims and friezes are decorative additions to a building that break the monotony of a plain wall.
Trims are the smaller of the two and can be added to a wall of any height however they are actually added to a room above where you want the trim to be. If your house is a single storey building, this means building an empty room on the second level to match the shape of the lower floor. This can be done even if you already have a roof built. Once there is an empty room on the higher level, you can add the wall trim to that empty room and it will appear at the top of the lower level wall.
Click to Enlarge. Trims are placed on the wall above where we want them to be
Trims are added to all outside walls of the selected room. If you want to place the trim on one wall only, press the shift key as you place the trim.
Friezes are a larger wall trim and require a taller wall height. Some need the highest wall possible, while others can be placed on the medium walls. Unlike the trims, friezes are placed on the wall in question, so there is no need to build an empty room above where you want to place a frieze.
As with trims, hold the shift key while placing friezes to add to just one wall.
Click to Enlarge. Friezes need taller walls to be placed
Trims and friezes can only be added to exterior walls and if an exterior wall with a trim or frieze is later enclosed with a wall, the trim will be removed from that section. Trims and friezes don't really need a wall and can be added to empty rooms as long as that empty room is an exterior room.
Click to Enlarge. Friezes and trims don't even need a wall to be placed
Spandrels are trims mostly used outside on porches. Use the empty room or deck tool to define the area and then place the spandrel at the top of the room. Spandrels can be placed above fences, but if they are used where there is a full wall, the wall will be removed.
Click to Enlarge. Spandrels are often used to decorate a porch
When placing spandrels, they will automatically be placed along all of the wall that you highlight. If you hold the shift key while placing them, they will be placed on every empty wall of the room.
Click to Enlarge. Hold the shift key when placing spandrels to place them on every empty wall
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The Sims 4 Seasons expansion now has options! Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Cottage Living Guide! Here is my guide to new features in the Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion
You can also find handy Cottage Living Cheats
I have much more to come, since you can actually write a few guides about this pack!
Blender has been incredibly useful in video production, so I made my own Physics and Simulation Improvement Addon that lumps a ton of unique tools into one compact interface.
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I've released a guide to Sentiments in The Sims 4 & Snowy Escape.
There is a new platform tool in The Sims 4. There's also a new Sentiments system, but it'll take some time to create a guide to that. Players can also use rental lots in any world now by changing lot types of builds in manage worlds.
I've created a massive List of The Best Mods in The Sims 4 that should be very helpful to new players and those who have not yet explored modding and how much it can do for your gameplay.
New - Secrets I have a new guide to secrets in the game. If you prefer, you can also watch a video about secrets in Sims 4.
Nifty Knitting is now available. Learn all about the stuff pack on my guide page here.
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This is inspired by a new series in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to the full playlist!
I now have a guide page to Tiny Living Stuff where you can learn about Murphy Beds, the new death, as well as the lot bonuses you'll receive if you manage to keep the size of your lot down with this new pack's Tiny Home Lot Type.
New I now have a guide to Making Super Sims in The Sims 4. Look for a text version within the next 72h. It won't have THAT much more info but it will help out as a checklist.
This was inspired by a series, "Let's Play a Super Sim" in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to each part for people who are interested. You can also see the Let's Play as a Playlist on Youtube.
The Sims 4 Discover University has been announced for November 15 for PC/Mac and December 17 for Xbox and Playstation 4 consoles. Click to learn more about the pack, see my summary of the livestream or read our FAQs below.
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Comments (4)
If you have no mods delete the localthumbcache.package file from your The Sims 4 folder and test your game again. Be sure to make no typos, leave extra spaces in the cheats and so on.
All cheats are working as normal for me.
I was curious, does using building cheats MoveObjects On, Showhiddenitems, etc. Cause the game to crash? For instance if you put an item that technically shouldn't be there like a showhiddenobjects item? I know a lot of people are having issues with TS4 lately and I took the suggestion to delete my saved game and restart, so I did and I also used these cheats so that's what made me wonder if it was related or solely a EA problem.